Harddisk identified as generic type47<---help!

[SHuKTuNG]

i have a quantum fireball kx 13.6 ATA66 hard drive. but it is identified as generic type 47 in the windows device manager... how can i make it identified as quantum kx...? and its really slow in the sandras sisoft benchmark 2000 a score of 4500+ thats very low for a ATA 66 drive. i have the right cable and mobo...(intel cc820)

thnx for any advice

[Rowan]

The Generic Type 47 stands for the User Definable type in BIOS. The other 46 types are for 10-40MB hard disks. I've never had a hard disk that was identified as any other than Type 47 in Windows. So I guess that doesn't effect performance.

Have you checked if the DMA is enabled on the hard drive, do you have any other devices connected to the same IDE cable?

[SteveC]

To get it to read off your proper HDD name, usually installing the IDE drivers for your mainboard and not using the windows inbuilt ones does it.

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Cheers,
Steve

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[SHuKTuNG]

aight guys i got it.... i installed the intel ATA66 storage driver the beta one...

thnx